american air strike, by a drone. do people on the ground care? >> reporter: no, not in sinjar. the issues here are much more local. we're talking about peshmerga trying to lead a fight to push isis out of the neighborhood near the place they want to call their future homeland and already many of them do consider their homeland. for the yazidis, who used to live in sinjar, while of course jihadi john and what he did on youtube and social media caused, perhaps, the united states to decide to intervene in the fight against isis, that may have some impact on their thoughts. this is much more of a local tragedy. the yazidis live in the mountains, those who fled sin y -- sinjar, looking down on their town, thinking of the day they can move in. that day is much closer but they're going back to a town frankly, rubble, laden with booby traps, something of a disaster to try and house